Answers to the question of what the United States could do to improve the educational performance of our students are to be found in the current issue of OECD Observer, the magazine of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Several articles in the current issue focus on education from an international perspective. The first […]

The way the press reports the story, it’s easy to conclude the main problem with schools is that teachers are a worthless bunch whose motivation is a paycheck and not the education of their students. How then to explain why dozens of teachers are gathered here in Farmington, Maine this week – for neither money […]

Kathreen Harrison

Kathreen Harrison is a public school teacher in Maine. She has a master’s degree from Bank Street College of Education and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. She has worked in a variety of schools in New York and Maine in a number of capacities – French teacher, gifted and talented teacher, elementary school teacher, and curriculum coordinator for island schools. She has lived in Maine for 20 years and has a particular interest in school reform.